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  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-10-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "mysql: insecure error log file handling in mysqld_safe (CPU Oct 2016)",
    "id" : "1386564",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386564"
  },
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    "cvss_base_score" : "6.8",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
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    "status" : "verified"
  },
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  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5617\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5617\nhttps://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-RootPrivEsc-CVE-2016-6664-5617-Exploit.txt" ],
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}